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Author Meets Critics (Wed. 10 p.m., Mutual). Clarinetist Mezz Mezzrow gets in some licks for his new book, Really the Blues. Critics: Guitarist Eddie Condon and Esquire's Leonard Feather...
Featured on tonight's broadcast will be the Brahms Clarinet Sonata, Opus 120, No. 1, and Schumann's Fantasie-stuck No. 3 for clarinet and piano. Lee will accompany Archie Johnson '50, clarinetist...
...someone that an accordion could be made to swing, learned to play the thing and became accordionist in Whiteman's band. Then in 1943 an auto accident put him in a cast for 18 months, left him with a permanent limp. Last March he rounded up Clarinetist Andy Fitzgerald, Guitarist Jack Hotop and Bass Player Gate Frega, sold them on his basic idea: "Erase the labels from music. Stop thinking about 'jive,' 'swing,' 'sweet' and 'jump.' Just play music...
...Jazz (Bunk Johnson and his New Orleans Band; Victor, 8 sides). Old Bunk's trumpet leads the choir in When the Saints Go Marching In and A Closer Walk with Thee, then turns secular in Franklin Street Blues and I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate. Clarinetist George Lewis and Trombonist James Robinson step high on the parade tunes. Performance: excellent...
...this reason the string section of the orchestra came off on top, despite some fine work by the clarinetist and a desperate effort on the oboe to handle the difficult trio. The orchestra's fortissimo proved accurate, and Holmes earned his recalls...